Concert Details
| Title: | Duruflé: Requiem, Op.9 |
| Performed by: | D'Arcy Trinkwon, Concert Organist |
| Time: | Monday, 23 March 2020, at 7:30pm |
| Place: | The Meeting House, University of Sussex, Brighton |
| Description: | University of Sussex Chamber Choir Hannah Folkes (conductor) D'Arcy Trinkwon (organ) Duruflé began his setting of the Latin Requiem in May 1941 in response to a composition competition commissioned by the collaborationist Vichy government: he was still working on it in 1944 when the regime collapsed. Ever the self-critical perfectionist he did complete it until September 1947. Dedicating the work to the memory of his father, the first version with full orchestra accompaniment, was followed by a second for chamber orchestra; the version to be performed on March 23 is its third version of 1948 with organ accompaniment. Such was the work’s effect and popularity that it earned more royalties during the following four decades than any other work by a living French composer: it remains one of the most sublimely beautiful and powerful of all such works. Duruflé himself stated: “This Requiem is not an ethereal work which sings of detachment from human concerns. It reflects, in the unchanging form of Christian prayer, the anguish of man faced with the mystery of his final end”. |
| Tickets: | Tickets on the door: £5 / £3 |
| Contact: | Sussex University Chamber Choir  |
